Infinitestriving to be the best is man's duty;it is its own reward.Everything else is in God's hands.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Believe that none of the effort you putinto coming closer to God is ever wasted -even if in the end you don't achievewhat you are striving for.- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

How far you go in life depends on you beingtender with the young,compassionate with the aged,sympathetic with the strivingand tolerant of the weak and the strong.Because someday in life you will have been all of these.- George Washington Carver

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag,but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.- James Bryce

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Whatever course you have chosen for yourself,it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bringto it a sense of the glory of striving.- David Sarnoff

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy,but the striving to win the prize.- Robert Bulwer-Lytton

That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.- Dale Earnhardt

I have tried to keep on with my striving because thisis the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.- Arthur Ashe

All that you may achieve or discover you will regardas a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth whichfrom the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.- Abbott L. Lowell

It is only through raising expectations and strivingfor excellence that our children can reach their full potential.- Brad Henry

The most splendid achievement of all is the constantstriving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.- Denis Waitley

The second fundamental feature of culture is that allculture has an element of striving.- Johan Huizinga

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds,liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness andjustice will reign in the world.- Islom Karimov

I am more fond of achieving than striving.My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless.My efforts must soon be crowned with success,or discontinued.- Carolyn Wells

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.- Fred Frith

And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these;and he is dead,who will not fight; and who dies fighting has increase.- Julian Grenfell

A little less complaint and whining,and a little more dogged work and manly striving,would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.- W. E. B. Du Bois

After a century of striving, after a year of debate,after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise.It is the law of the land.- Barack Obama

That is what great athletes can do: they give us amodel of striving for human perfection.- Armstrong Williams

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful -unless one was striving for mediocrity.- William Hurt

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.- Thomas Kempis

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men.But the striving, which at present has become so insistent,cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace,or solving all disputes among nations.- Alva Myrdal

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.Those who have cautiously done no more than they believedpossible have never taken a single step forward.- Mikhail Bakunin

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost,it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost.If you cannot accurately predict the future then youmust flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.- Edward de Bono

I do write about people who are complex and are strivingwith something and can't quite get past their own stuff,which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.- Eric Bogosian

The idea for which this nation stands will not surviveif the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity.Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.- John W. Gardner

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer,the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving;it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.- Franz Kafka

Even the striving for equality by means of a directedeconomy can result only in an officially enforced inequality -an authoritarian determination of the status of eachindividual in the new hierarchical order.- Friedrich August von Hayek

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little;yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance,and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.- Paul Elmer More

Winning isn't everything, but playing and competingand striving and going through things can be a lotof fun and really important.As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy,sports can be an incredible opportunity.- Andrew Shue

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keepingawake the sense of wonder in the world.In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation;but in this long vigil he is also himself strivingagainst a continual tendency to sleep.- Marc Chagall

My most profound confidence is however based upon thefact that at the head of Germany there stands a manby his entire development,his desires, and striving can only have been destinedby fate to lead our people into a brighter future.- Alfred Jodl

All life demands struggle.Those who have everything given to them become lazy,selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life.The very striving and hard work that we so constantlytry to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.- Pope Paul VI

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years,but I never told anyone.Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures,and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.- Tim Cahill

Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation,derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world;it is also paralleled by,and perhaps derived from, the striving towards thestate of simplest structure in physical systems.- Rudolf Arnheim

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way ofstriving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom,but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts thatinfuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.- Flora Lewis

The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independenceremain a standard for our nation today.They also remain a standard for those nations acrossthe globe striving to achieve democracy.- Paul Gillmor

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail:a fragile shoot between two stones that grows bravetoward the sun though warmth and brightness fail,striving and faith the only strength it knows.- Frances Rodman

Give me the comma of imperfect striving,thus to find zest in the immediate living.Ever the reaching but never the gaining,ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.- Winston Graham

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebodyor other has been discovered,you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago -since that time he has been toiling,working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.- James Whitcomb Riley

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard toget along with is to remember that this person is strivingto assert his superiority;and you must deal with him from that point of view.- Alfred Adler

I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had.And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would.I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction thatcomes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.- Sigourney Weaver

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something,then there's nothing left for you to work towards.I want to believe that there is a mountain so highthat I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.- Cicely Tyson

The people that make this country work,the people who pay on their mortgages,the people getting up and going to work,striving in this recession to not participate in it,they're not the enemy.They're the people that hire you.They're the people that are going to give you a job.- Rush Limbaugh

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them.And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians,but thinking about themselves as good human beings,striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.- Charlie Haden

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken outbetween the North and the South.- Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace:but the peace,which they would effect, is superficial,false, and temporary.- Gerrit Smith

Strive not to be a success,but rather to be of value.- Albert Einstein

Competition has been shown to be usefulup to a certain point and no further,but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today,begins where competition leaves off.- Franklin D. Roosevelt